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Metaphor Category:
"Fetters"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Author name:
"Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Early Seventeenth Century"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Religion of Author:
"Anti-Catholic"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Date: c. 1603
"Just when the human mind, borne thither by some favouring gale, had found rest in a little truth, this man presumed to cast the closest fetters on our understandings."
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